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I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide (app.sesame.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30173090

The AIs at Sesame are able to hold eloquent and free-flowing conversations about just about anything, but the second you mention the Palestinian genocide they become very evasive, offering generic platitudes about "it's complicated" and "pain on all sides" and "nuance is required", and refusing to confirm anything that seems to hold Israel at fault for the genocide -- even publicly available information "can't be verified", according to Sesame.

It also seems to block users from saving conversations that pertain specifically to Palestine, but everything else seems A-OK to save and review.

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[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 48 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I suspect most of the major models are as well. Kind of like how the Chinese models deal with Tienanmen Square.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 31 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Actually the Chinese models aren't trained to avoid Tiananmen Square. If you grabbed the model and ran it on your own machine, it will happily tell you the truth.

They censored their AI at a layer above the actual LLM, so users of their chat app would find results being censored.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's...silly

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it's almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn't that particular, as long as you follow it.

You also don't risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.

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